Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Secretary of Interior Stewart Udall for an extension of the buffer, which would have encompassed the area occupied by the Union Oil rig and avoided the present disaster. Udall assured the town officials that the Federal Government would keep a close eye on the drilling. "Always, Interior and oil officials led us to believe we had nothing to fear," says Santa Barbara County Supervisor George Clyde. The Government, of course, profited by the drilling; last year it made $1.6 billion in rentals, royalties and bonus payments from the Santa Barbara concession. The block that included the leaky Union well...
Expanding Mass. The management of Union Oil Co. was understandably reticent about divulging fully what went wrong on Platform A, which it managed in consortium with Gulf, Mobil and Texaco. After getting permission to cut some corners from the U.S. Geological Survey, an arm of the Interior Department that has the responsibility of enforcing federal laws governing drilling, Union Oil went ahead and drilled A21. Having burrowed down 3,500 ft. below the ocean floor, the riggers than began to retrieve the pipe in order to replace a drill bit. At a point during the withdrawal, the drilling "mud," which...
...Santa Ana River after a mud slide broke a pipeline. Twice in 1967, the company was brought up on violations of California fish and game statutes for polluting Los Angeles harbor. Indeed, its competitors complain that Union is giving the industry a bad name. After the disaster, representatives of oil companies operating rigs off Santa Barbara met quietly to decide, as one participant put it, whether "to take the drop from the gallows together." Reluctantly, they agreed to back Union-at least for the time being...
...federal regulations "so that this kind of incident will not occur again." But his Secretary of the Interior did little to reinforce the President's pledge. Nixon had sent Walter Hickel to the disaster area in a presidential jet. At first, Hickel impressed Santa Barbarans by persuading all oil companies in the area to suspend operations. Then, inexplicably, Hickel reversed himself, only to re-reverse his stand two days later and close the ngs down again. Hickel's ambivalence and his defense of Union Oil infuriated conservationists, who noted that the Secretary had close relations with the oil...
Mother Earth. Much the same reception greeted Union Oil President Fred Hartley when he traveled to Washington last week to appear before the Senate Public Works subcommittee on air and water pollution, Hartley, who is a blunt, short-tempered executive, had dismissed the tragedy as "'Mother Earth letting the oil come out" At the hearings, the Senators were already grumbling that the Interior Department had not bothered to send a representative. Hartley did not help his cause by saying; "I'm amazed at the publicity for the loss of a few birds '' Most heated were...